Re: Make "git am" properly unescape lines matching ">>*From "

From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Jun 8, 2010, 21:30 UTC
Message-ID: <87wru9i55a.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C0EAE08.60904@zytor.com>

On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:54:32 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

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> On 06/08/2010 01:47 PM, Carl Worth wrote:
> > I've also noticed that format-patch is generating bogus mbox files
> > without any escaping. (The only way it gets away with this is that
> > mailsplit only treats "From " lines as separators if they end with
> > something that looks quite a bit like the output of asctime.)
> 
> At the same time, it would be a fairly major lose to not be able to
> generate individual messages easily.  I have personally considered the
> fact that git format-patch produces something-vaguely-like mboxes rather
> than individual plain RFC 2822 messages to be a bug; fixable by "tail"
> but annoying.

I totally agree. I said as much later on in the message. We should fix format-patch to not emit the "From " line when generating files for individual messages, (and we should fix send-email to accept such a bare file).

That much is easy to agree on since it involves using mbox less, so the whole "which mbox format to use?" question goes away, (for these uses at least).

-Carl

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